Warmth, Food and Hope
your Winter Rescue gift can help a family survive this winter with warmth feeling loved and filled with hopeFor vulnerable families across Eastern Europe, winter brings extreme cold, hunger, and hardship. Without heating, warm clothing, or enough food, many face months of dangerous conditions.
Winter Rescue provides practical, life saving support including food parcels, warm clothing, blankets, and heating fuel delivered directly to families in need.
Your gift helps keep children warm, families fed, and homes safe during the coldest months of the year.
A Mother’s Fight to Keep Her Children Warm
It’s been three months since 49-year-old Larisa lost her job. Separated from her husband, who struggled with alcohol and terrified their four children, she now faces the challenges of single motherhood alone.
Winter has arrived in Moldova. Temperatures plunge well below freezing, and for Larisa, keeping her children warm, fed, and clothed feels almost impossible. Job opportunities in her small village are scarce.
Larisa once worked at a leather factory near her home. “In the mornings, I took the younger children to kindergarten and then went to work. Because I was officially employed, I also received monthly child support from the state,” she said. But when the factory closed, so did her only source of stable income. Now, anxiety often fills her heart as she thinks about how to pay bills and meet her children’s needs in the harsh months ahead.
The family live in a small, crumbling house owned by a relative. Inside, Larisa and her four children Julia (16) six-year-old twins Taisia and David, and five-year-old Laura share just one main room. There’s no kitchen, only a small table beside the heating stove, and no bathroom, just a basin for washing. Read more
